John Forster (biographer)
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John Forster was an English writer and biographer. He was best known for publishing The Life of Charles Dickens, which was the first biography published of Charles Dickens after his death in 1870. He
Portrait of John Forster by Charles Edward Perugini, 1887
Charles Dickens
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Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era
John Forster (biographer)
…was an English writer and biographer. He was best known for publishing The Life of Charles Dickens (1872), which was the first biography published of Charles Dickens after his death in 1870. He was a personal friend of Dickens and part of Dickens's social circle, which included William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie…
Portrait by Jeremiah Gurney, c. 1867–1868
Charles Dickens's birthplace, 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
2 Ordnance Terrace (house on the left), Chatham, Kent, Dickens's home from 1817 to 1821
An illustration by Fred Bernard of Dickens at work in a shoe-blacking factory after his father had been sent to the Marshalsea, published in the 1892 edition of Forster's Life of Charles Dickens